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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand’s health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand’s health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- Nurse-led school-based clinics for skin infections and rheumatic fever prevention: Results from a pilot study in South Auckland
- Health care and lost productivity costs of overweight and obesity in New Zealand
- Practice nurse cost benefit analysis: Report to the Ministry of Health
- Avoidable hospitalisations: Potential for primary and public health initiatives in Canterbury, New Zealand
- Potential gains and costs from increasing access to thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke patients in New Zealand hospitals
International Literature
- The impact of nurse practitioner services on cost, quality of care, satisfaction and waiting times in the emergency department- a systematic review
- Home telemonitoring for chronic disease management: An economic assessment (Canada)
- A cost-effectiveness analysis of online, radio and print tobacco control advertisements targeting 25–39 year-old males (Australia)
- Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of home palliative care services for adults with advanced illness and their caregivers (Cochrane review)
- Estimating the cost-effectiveness of lifestyle intervention programmes to prevent diabetes based on an example from Germany: Markov modelling
